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Panorama Heights, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Springville-Johnsondale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93260. It lies near Peel Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Posey quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,043 feet above sea level.

Panorama Heights within Tulare County

Then and now

1936 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Panorama Heights, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Panorama Heights, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Panorama Heights grew from 41 to 44 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201041
202044+3 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Panorama Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29,355 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestSUGAR
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestMEADOW
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSequoia National ForestDEER
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictGRANITE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSequoia National ForestPASS
23 September 2011Natural8.0 acresSequoia National ForestSUNDAY
2 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSequoia National ForestKEEP
11 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSequoia National ForestCAPINERO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Panorama Heights: 9 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Uranium, Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Good Enough ProspectTungsten, MolybdenumPast ProducerScheelite
Trixie ProspectTungsten, GoldPast Producer
Big Four No. 1UraniumUnknown
Wattenbarger ProspectUraniumProspect
White River ClaimsMolybdenum, Copper, SilverOccurrenceMolybdenite
White River ProspectMolybdenum, Copper, SilverOccurrenceVein
Anita MayTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Anita MayTungstenProspect
Cadillac MineTungstenPast ProducerPyrite, Scheelite
Cadillac MineTungstenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Poso Park0.5 miles22
Pleasant View0.6 miles22
Balance Rock1.2 miles22
Sugarloaf Village1.5 miles22
Guernsey Mill2.1 miles22
Spear Creek Summer Home Tract2.1 miles22
Sugarloaf Saw Mill2.2 miles22
Idlewild2.3 miles22

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Panorama HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2895183The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661189. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.